AMC 8078
A SELECTION OF KNOA

New unconventional innovative folkmusik, excitingly and unusually arranged in original compositions. Three guitars, violin and double bass and a complete percussion section.

AMC 041975
KUSTBANDET LIVE IN STOCKHOLM

From the vaults!

In April 1975, a year and a half before Opus 3 Records was founded, we had the pleasure of making a live recording of Kustbandet. It was a really swinging event and as the well known character from the era Fats Waller put it….”The joint was jumpin”.

When you think that it is almost 40 years since this recording was made it is very gratifying that we were able to capture the fantastic energy, musicianship and enthusiasm for the essential elements of jazz from this era, making it easy to forgive any imperfections of balance between the different instruments due to a less than perfect environment.

AMC 19102
TOMAS ÖRNBERG'S BLUE FIVE AND FRIENDS
Nobody's Blues But Mine

We have built up this recording round a number and variery of guest soloists, to give a wide number of personal sounds.
In addition to Bent Persson (tp), Olle Nyman (bj/gtr) and Bo Juhlin (sous), who of course all are members of the BLUE FIVE group, we find: Bob Barnard (tp), Keith Durston (p), Morten Gunnar Larsen (p), Joep Peeters (p), and Frans Sjöström (bass sax).

AMC 19502
Kenneth Arnström, featured by Tomas Örnberg's BLUE FIVE and friends.
Rhythm King

One of the biggest talents in Swedish jazz (until now unwilling to make solo records) finally makes a recording debut in his own name, and in many dilferent styles. We hear Kenneth Arnström playing clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax and bass clarinet. The music played is classical (vintage) jazz, influenced for example by Coleman Hawkins, L. Armstrong, E. Condon and the classic New Orleans clarinettists - all woven into a distinctive style and personality: Kenneth Arnström's. Tomas Örnberg; cl/sop, Bent Persson; cnt/trp, Olle Nyman;bj/gtr, Göran Eriksson; bj, Keith Durston; pi, Bo Juhlin; sous,
Tomas Ekström; b.

AMC 19503
BOB BARNARD
Cornet Chop Suey

Australia's internationally best known and most successful jazz musician, trumpeter Bob Barnard, with a unique mastery of everything from 1920s  Armstrong to Swing and Mainstream, plays a varied mixture of three
Armstrong classics for quartet, two duo ballads and ten familiar and less familiar Dixieland and Swing numbers in two diflerent quintet settings.

A record longed for by critics and general public alike, because in recent decades Bob has mostly recorded Mainstream.
Lars-Erik Eriksson; cl, Olle Nyman; bj/gtr, Johan Bijkerk; pi, Björn Hagerman: bass. Kalle Nygren; pi and Tomas Örnbergl cl.

AMC 8003
TOMAS ÖRNBERG'S BLUE FIVE
featuring Kenny Davern

Besides the basic BLUE FIVE group, which of course includes Bent Persson on trumpet and Bo Juhlin on sousaphone, this CD also includes the American Clarinettist Kenny Davern who is featured in six tracks. Together they play their way through their own very inspired versions from the Blue Five era repertoire.

This recording was awarded with the 1982 Swedish Gramophone Prize for the best jazz production of the year!

Tunes like: New Orleans Stomp, Black Beauty, Rocky Mountain Blues, Too Busy, Bienville
Blues, Let's Sow Wild Oat, Mood Indigo etc.

AMC 19405
THE LARS ERSTRAND SESSIONS
featuring:
Bob Barnard, Danny Moss & Roy Williams

For this recording we asked Lars Erstrand to choose three of his favourite musicians as soloists. He chose Roy Williams, trombone, Bob Barnard, trumpet and Danny Moss, tenor sax - each of them a world star on his instrument.

Bob Barnard, who went professional in 1949 at the age of 16, can look back on a long and successful career. Today he is by far the biggest name in Australian jazz and the country's internationally best-known and most sought after jazz musician. Like Roy Williams, he is second to none on his instrument and in the styles he commands.

Danny Moss too is one of Britain's best known jazz musicians and for many years has ranked as Europe's leading Swing tenor player. With his vigorous playing and unusually big sound, he has become the heir of the classic
American Swing tenor players. He lives half the year in Australia and the other half in Britain, in this way dividing his concert tours between both
hemispheres.

Roy Williams has long been one of Britain's best known and most successful jazz musicians. Today he is one of the internationally most sought after players in Europe, not least by American bands on tour. Like Bob Barnard, he is one of the very few stars today with a real feeling for both twenties,
Swing and Mainstream. Because of his sound and the ease with which he commands his instrument, many consider him perhaps today's top trombonist in any category.

In "The Lars Erstrand Sessions" we also hear two different quartet forces with a number of musicians from Sweden's swing jazz elite:
Jan Lundgren and Kjell Öhman, piano.
Leif "Gus" Dahlberg and Ronnie Gardiner, drums,
and Tommy Johnson and Arne Wilhelmsson, bass.

AMC 8302
TWO SIDES OF LARS ERSTRAND

This recording really shows three sides of the world famous vibe player Lars Erstrand: in duo, trio and quintet settings! Together with Sweden's swing elite, he plays tunes like: Gladys, Move, Land Of The Midnight Sun,
Exactly Like You, Reunion Blues, Cavatina, Concerto D'aranjuez, Sweet Georgie Fame, etc.

Roland Jivelid, tenor sax, Knud Jörgensen, piano, Bertil Fernqvist, guitar,
Arne Wilhelmsson, bass and Pelle Hultén, drums

AMC 8402
LARS ERSTRAND AND FOUR BROTHERS

Following their successful collaboration in the quintet setting from the "Two Sides "recording with Knud Jörgensen (piano), Roland Jivelid (tenor sax), Arne Wilhelmsson (bass) and Pelle Hultén (drums), the gang returns with pieces like: There With You, Body And Soul, Too Good To Be True, T And S, The Rabbit Jumps etc.

AMC 8603
ERSTRAND-LIND QUARTET
A Tribute To The Benny Goodman Quartet

This recording includes most of the Goodman favourites: Stomping at the Savoy, Don't be that way, Avalon, Smiles, Opus fi, Pick a rib, etc.

It is worth mentioning that, for his Paris concert in 1972,Benny Goodman chose these players for his accompanying group - though, needless to say, minus clarinettist Ove Lind. Rolf Larsson, piano and Pelle Hultin, drums.

AMC 9101
LARS ERSTRAND QUARTET
Dream Dancing

After three successful recordings for Opus 3, here he is again, this time with his newly formed quartet! Also featured on this recording is one of Sweden's best keyboard players, Kjell Öhman, playing both the piano and last
but not least, the legendary Hammond B3 organ! Lars Erstrand, let it be known, ranks as No.3 in the world in his intstrument according to Jazz Journal International.
Leif "Gus" Dahlberg, drums and Tommy Johnson, bass.

AMC19402
Kjell Öhman
The Hammond Connection

In this recording Kjell has gathered some of his favourite musicians round the Hammond B3 in a selection of his favourite jazz evergreens. It is interesting to note that in recent years there has been a massive revival of the authentic Hammond B3 organ in jazz, rock and blues. 

AMC 19302
JOHAN DIELEMANS TRIO
Round'Midnight

Johan Dielemans Trio is a jazz trio which was formed quite recently but by veteran musicians!

Johan, the groups leader and drummer, has collaborated a great deal with Monica Zetterlund, but also Monica Borrfors, Knud Jörgensen and the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra. Pianist Alvaro Is, who was born in Spain
but settled in Sweden in 1966, collaborated, for example with Red Mitchell.

On this recording we hear a number of standards - rather in the ballad line and
lyrical interpretations like: Love for sale, Come rain or come shine, Humph,
Round' Midnight, Like someone in love, etc. Olle Steinholtz on bass.

AMC 19801
Gösta Rundquist Trio
"Treecircle"

A record is born of dreams and hopes. As a musician, one constantly wants to go further or deeper, unfold and evolve, renew the power of expression, the interplay, the dynamics, the flow.

The dream is to find musicians with whom
you can experiment and find your way together with. Three individual voices becoming a trio - a single entity.
The dream is that the recording situation itself contributes by being a real spiritual encounter. The dream of a concert hall with
good natural acoustics and an excellent grand piano.
The dream of recording without acoustic panels and separate rooms, multiple microphones, mixer-board and reverb units.
The dream is of direct eye- and earcontact between the musicians, here and now, throughout the recording session.

Includes: For Heavens Sake, Falling Grace, A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing,
Turn Out The Stars, The Meaning Of The Blues, How My Heart Sings.

AMC 19803
Cirrus
"Lands End"

Cirrus was started in 1992 reaching it's present form in 1997 which comprises two acoustic guitars, tenor and soprano saxophones, didgeridoo, melodica, double bass and percussion, here playing their own compositions.

This somewhat unconventional line-up of instrumentation was brought about by the
individual musicians needs to break away from the accepted norms associated with jazz, pop and rock - fields in which all of the group have already had considerable experiences - and give range to their musical creativity in
composition, musical expression, improvisation and indisputable talent.

AMC 19501
SOREN HERMANSSON AND
PER-OVE LARSSON
Horn and Organ Recital

This rather unusual CD of music for horn and organ features international horn player Sören Hermansson together with star organist Per-Ove Larsson.

The repertoire extends from an early work by Camille Saint Saëns (written in 1854) to Bernhard Krol's Missa Muta, written in about 1960.
The international array of composers represented includes: Henk Badings, Bernhard Reichel and Georg Hoeberg, though the main emphasis is on Sweden's folk music heritage: Oskar Lindberg's Gammal Fäbodpsalm, August Körling's Pastorale and Hugo Alfvén's Notturno Elegiaco.

This CD offers both romantic atmosphere and
sharper sounds with a variety of both colour and dynamics.

AMC 19601
The Stockholm Arts Trio
Franz Schubert

As part of the bicentenary celebration of the birth of Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) we have the pleasure of releasing two of his compositions for pianotrio:

The Trio in B Flat Major, op. 99, D- 898 generally considered to be one of Schubert's masterpieces for chamber orchestra.

A rare recording of the "Sonata in B Flat Major, D-28, piano-trio which was composed by Schubert when he was only 15 years old.
The members of the Stockholm Arts Trio are individually all winners of international competitions and together are considered to be one of Sweden's outstanding chamber-music
ensembles. Since 1988 they have toured internationally, including among others
annual tours of USA and regular performances in Germany and England.

AMC 8201
DOUDECIMA
Music for two Guitars

Duodecima consists of Lars Karlsson and Mikael Ljung.

In this recording, they play original music written for two guitars by:
Fernando Sor; Fantasie pour deux Gitares Guido Santórsola; Sonata a duo
John W. Duane; Variations on a French nursery song
and Pierre Petit; Toccata.

AMC 7915
STOCKHOLM GUITAR QUARTET
Bach - Telemann

The second of the Stockholm Guitar Quartet's successful albums is devoted to Baroque music and includes transciptions of:

Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
Telemann - Violin Concerto in G Major
Frescobaldi - La Frescobalda
and Cimarosa - Larghetto in C minor.

AMC 7810
STOCKHOLM GUITAR QUARTET
Transcriptions

The Guitar Quartet presents an entirely new family of instruments, consisting of four differently tuned guitars: soprano guitar, alto guitar, guitar, and bass guitar. In this internationally acclaimed recording they play Baroque, Impressionist and Spanish music in their own transcriptions.